Miguel McKelvey Quotes

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

When we opened our office in Santa Ana, California, in 2016, I could not have envisioned this level of growth, although I always knew our products would be well received by customers in North America.

Huda Beauty is doing so well, we've grown like crazy.

I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Get big or get out!

I am so proud of the growth of Dylan's Candy Bar into two more flagship stores: Union Square in New York City and Chicago on Michigan Avenue, and two airport stores: JFK and Detroit.

As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.

It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your service. What separates a potential colossus from other businesses is the capacity to keep growing at that rate in years four, five, and beyond.

Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.

Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.